Towboat Crash Closes 10 Miles of Mississippi River

Six barges broke free

Morgantown Dominion Post
5 October 2009
Associated Press

Greenville, Miss. — The Coast Guard said it closed 10 miles of the Mississippi River for three hours after a towboat hit a bridge and all six barges broke free from the vessel C.B. Ford.

Petty Officer Casey J. Ranel said the section was reopened Sunday after the barges were recovered.

She said no one was hurt and no pollution was reported.

Ranel said she didn't know whether the crash damaged the Old Greenville Bridge, about halfway between Little Rock, Ark., and Jackson.

The accident occurred at about 5:20 a.m.